Lamprell, a provider of engineering and contracting services to the onshore and offshore energy industry, has announced the completion of construction on the jackup drilling rig, the 'Butinah', and delivery to Abu Dhabi's National Drilling Company (NDC).
This comes following an announcement last week where NDC exercised one of its existing options and awarded a further contract to Lamprell to build a ninth rig in the series. The 'Butinah' rig departed Lamprell's Hamriyah facility and is sailing to its drilling location in the Zakum Field off Abu Dhabi.
The contract for the NDC 'Butinah' rig was signed in April 2012 and this is the sixth in a series of nine rigs being built and delivered by Lamprell to NDC. All nine rigs have been or will be designed according to the Cameron LeTourneau Super 116E (Enhanced) Class design. The 'Butinah' rig now joins its sister rigs, the 'Makasib' the 'Muhaiyimat', the 'Qarnin', the 'Marawwah' and most recently the 'Shuwehat' which was delivered in December 2014. All of the rigs are on charter to the ADNOC group of companies.
With the delivery of the 'Butinah', Lamprell has now delivered a total of 27 new build jackup units, and its fourteenth Super 116E jackup drilling unit, to various clients during the last nine years.
